Happiness is truly a wonderful thing. It gives our lives meaning and pleasure on a daily basis. It's quite a sight, and a good one at that. It sure beats being mopey all of the time. We all need a little optimism, courage, vigor, and insight to steer our lives in the right direction. As of right now, i'm not truly happy yet. I don't have my dream job in sight, I have little disposable income, and I just waste my time lounging around with nothing to do. Once I go back to Seneca in September, that might actually start to change.


How happy are you right now? Do you think you could become happier? Thank you for supporting me, always.


 (Note: I made a thread previously called "What makes you happy". This is different. I want to know just how satisfied you are with your life and how much optimism you have). 

Right now? In this period of time, I'm pretty content with where I'm going in life. I've made the college soccer team and my classes, I find, are easy even though they're known as some of the hardest courses. I don't have a stable income, but I took a job at a grocery store to help fund some of college along with my scholarships. Lastly, my relationships with people are pretty good, and I have enough close friends to make me, well, happy!

Of course I could be happier. But why look at life like that when I could enjoy what I have now?

By the way, trust me, man: You may not know where you're going right now. You may not be in the best situation right now. But it will get better. It did for me and I can only thank perseverance and the ability to keep going humans are gifted with. Just keep going and look at the bright side, bro.  

I say I am at my happiest when I have gone out for an adventure to the cinema or somewhere different. That brightens up my self esteem or with my friends on vizzed. Or it could even be to do with what I like doing, cooking, baking and also my other hobbies as well. It just makes your thoughts to think in happiness, while at peace doing the things you really love to do in life.

This is a very simple question, with a very simple answer.


Very.

I'm not always the happiest person in the world, but I'm at a point in my life right now where I'm never not happy in one way or another. I always have something going for me, even if I'm sad. I always have blessings to count, whether the list be small or large. I've got a family that loves me, even if they mess up a lot. I believe in an afterlife where I get to live with my family again. Because I have hope for the future, things are great, even when they're not. Because my mind isn't stuck in the past, I can look towards the future with confidence, even though I know so little about it. I know I'm going to have a great future, even if tomorrow and the day after that and so on are full of challenges and aren't fun. That's why life is great, not because it is great, but because it can become so.

I would say that I'm right in the middle, there's a bunch of random nonsense but then there's also a bunch if random fun stuff as well so they kind of balance each other out.

Is it bad that I actually had to look up the definition...?

I don't think I'm happy. I'm thankful for what I have and I know I shouldn't want for things, but I don't think I really know what happiness is.

Not much of an optimist, either. I like to think that I'm more of a realist. People see me as always looking at the bad side of things, but it's really a case of overly optimistic people completely ignoring the bad side altogether. I don't try to read something into anything or sugarcoat situations, but I do try my best to figure out how to make do with what's provided.

My line of thinking is that you should always expect and prepare for the worst. That way, the only time you'll ever be caught off guard is when you're pleasantly surprised.

I always try to be happy in life, but sometimes it's hard for me to be happy. Like, certain things get me down, or an event happens that gets me depressed for sometimes several months :/. In fact, I honestly can't remember the last time I was happy without ever being depressed at one point in a month (or possibly even a week).

On the internet and in public I always try to put on a "happy mask" of sorts. I try to act like I'm happy, and I'm often afraid to talk to people at times on the off hand that they'll think that my problems are "stupid" and think of me as being too sensitive (which I actually was in the past).

That doesn't mean that I am never happy, however. I do have days where I'm very happy and that nothing seems to bother me, but then it all comes crashing down again, whether the problem is big or small ><.

While it's being quite a tough month for me, I'm quite happy. Keeping my illness at bay and having my ever increasing group of friends can make me smile even on the darkest of times.

I could become happier if I got rid of a few troubles I have now. I'll make a big, forced and maybe even suicidal attempt to try to get rid of the dead weight in my shoulders. Won't be easy, and I'll need a bit of luck to be successful, but if I don't try I'll never success.

18mlivingston :

Wow that is a great answer like I can't even.


I don't know how happy I am. My emotions can switch for no reason sometimes. I dunno. I guess I'm in the middle or something.

I'm somewhat content with my life I guess. It's ironic because thinking about it a lot of people probably would be depressed if they were in my shoes. I used to struggle on and off with depression a few years ago but I've somewhat learned how to manage that which is just partly because I've matured more mentally. I'm doing pretty well in school with this year probably resulting in my best grades since late middle school though there's still a little bit of room for improvement. I'm also starting to figure out what I want to do with my life having narrowed it down to a few career paths. In general I'm enjoying playing video games, talking to people on vizzed and not really having to think too much about school now that it's summer.

Do I think I could be happier? Definitely. I've tried to adapt a positive outlook on things but I know there's a lot of room for improvement and most of that's on me. I've become unhappy with my unhealthy lifestyle that I've had for the past few years so I'm trying to take steps to change that now during the summer. I've been going to the gym, I'm trying to be a bit better with my eating habits (I'm underweight and eat a lot of unhealthy crap) and having more consistent sleep times. It has given me another goal to pursue. I'm primarily doing it because I think it will make me happier in the long run, improve my self image and make other aspects of my life like school easier to manage. 

Other than that is the one thing that's been troubling me ever since I started high school. My social life. I feel like I get along with most people pretty well at my school when I do talk to people. However I have a hard time getting close to people or even finding people that share similar interests for that matter basically being your standard example of an introvert. Hence why I end up spending huge amounts of time here during the summer or playing games (which has helped negate that). I'm bad at talking to new people and making new friends especially since I'm pretty withdrawn around anyone I don't already know well in real life which isn't helped by my lifestyle and having a somewhat poor self image. It has resulted in me having a pretty small amount of friends and I don't really have any friend I'm super close with anymore. I do wish I had more friends than I currently do even though I've come to accept and to some extent even embrace the way things are. It is not making me depressed but it is something that I guess stops me from being as happy as I could be. I'm hoping that's something I can maybe try to improve on after working on other aspects of my life like school and my lifestyle, which I think to some extent at least is affecting that. I at least feel a little bit optimistic though because even if these things are troubling me, I know I to a large extent have the power to do something to affect it.

The only thing that bothers me that's completely out of my control is my family. There's been a lot of on and off fighting between my mom and my older brothers (in particular one of them). She often ends up directing frustration at me because I live with her alone. She also has a cancer tumor and while she's doing relatively fine for now even if she is plagued by other things (since the cancer outbreak hasn't started) it could get rapidly worse at any time. It's basically like she has a ticking bomb within her. It could get worse tomorrow or it could take several years and not knowing is scary not only because of losing my mom but when it does happen It'll mostly fall on my shoulders to have to manage every aspect of my own life. Though that's something I'm starting to come to terms with as well. On the bright side it's something the staff at my current school is aware of and have been pretty understanding about so there is that in case something does happen with the two years I have left there. 

This kind of turned into a vent on my part but yeah a lot of things troubling me I guess. At least right now I don't feel depressed and I do have some things going for me as well. Hopefully there's nowhere to go but up from here.

I honestly haven't been truly happy consistently for like 4 months now. A lot of irl stuff has kept me down for quite a while now. It seems like even if something good happens for me, 10 bad things are almost sure to follow. I've tried to end it all a few times, but have been persuaded by some of my friends here not to. I can almost always count on my friends to, temporarily, make me happy, or at least amuse me, before I go back to the sad reality that is the real world. 

Sorry for the dark post XD. 

I've been dead inside since I was born

But no actually right now I have chicken so yeah pretty happy

I'm an emotionless ass who likes to be mean to others to make me feel human and that i have no respect for anyone's feelings... or so i've been told here. at least. x3

Very happy.

Now I'm not always happy, I mean no one who tells the truth will tell you they're always happy because life happens, and things aren't always good. However since God saved me back when I was a young teen I've been happy most of the time, and recently I've learned to always be happy with at least something in my life as supernerd said. So no, I'm not always happy in general, but I can always find something in my life to be happy about, and as such I never have to be truly depressed again, as there is always a light in the darkness for me. If nothing else I can always remember that I have the Lord, and take time for a good Holy Ghost prayer meeting and bingo: instant happiness.

So yeah, I'm very happy, and I'm glad to say that's the truth. My life isn't perfect nor am I, but I have a lot to live for and be happy about. Anyone can be that way really.

Man, you mustn't apologize. I feel down too, but everything can always get better. It's hard to live being depressed, but I make the most of what I can do within a day with the best of my ability. Don't lose hope, especially after having come so far. 

Idk i think im more of an emotionless ass like Tyrian

To be honest, I'm not happy. 

It's either me being filled with lots, lots, and LOTS of stressful college work, or dealing with loneliness. But I did take 20 college credits last semester and all 5 of my courses were very tough ones so maybe that's why. (From now on, I'm gonna take 16 credits because I realized I should only take stuff I can handle...)

But literally, almost the only time my "friends" try to talk to me is when they just need homework help. I've dealt with this both in college thus far and pretty much all of high school, middle, elementary school... etc. I sometimes sit with and eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner with my college/school "friends", but we almost barely manage to keep a conversation going. Unless they're asking for homework help, they just occupy themselves with their phone and then we walk to class together almost silently. I try to start and keep a conversation going but it's just me mostly talking and them giving very generic/short answers. 

There's only one person in college so far that I actually have a real conversation with and we play video games together. But we're both way too busy to barely meet up. And rarely, I have a real conversation with my former roommate who's always playing some ps4 game. Overall, throughout my life in school thus far, people just seem to want to use me rather than be actual friends. 

That being said... My elementary school life was the worst. (talk about a terrible childhood...) Both my classmates and even a lot of the teachers were bullies. Teachers were abusive and the students were a bunch of jerks. (all of them at that time) That elementary school was an Islamic school. I'm a Muslim and my parents told me that an Islamic school education was the best for me but... that elementary school was such a garbage experience. This is NOT because of the religion, but because of the terrible teachers. And maybe if the teachers had an actual anti-bully thing, the students might not have been such jerks. Instead, the teachers were like bullies themselves. I hate each and every one of them to this day because those bullies ruined my childhood. 

But... I still try to be thankful with what I have. I know there are people around the world who are/were in worse situations so I should still be thankful to God for what I have... I guess. I mean, my life now is a lot better than my terrible childhood. Maybe my future will be better (I hope) if I continue to be patient and pray to God...

Miserable. I would welcome an assassin's bullet. I am not happy,my personal life is a mess and I think that a bullet in my skull would be relief.

If you're not happy, work to improve tremendously. Only you are in charge of your own fate; you can get better from your current situation. Suicide should never be an option. Always look on the bright side of life! Please?